Speech Language Pathologist Outpatient
Anchorage, AK
Cross Country Allied
5x8 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Speech Language Pathologist, Outpatient. This 13-week outpatient assignment supports adult and geriatric patients in an acute healthcare setting. The role involves evaluation, treatment planning, patient and family education, dysphagia services, communication support, and related speech-language pathology interventions.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts, five 8-hour shifts per week, with a minimum of 40 hours per week. Four 10-hour shifts may also be considered. No weekend or on-call requirements.
• Required Qualifications:
  • At least 1 year of experience as a Speech Language Pathologist
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
  • Compact license in hand at submission
  • Required experience with electronic charting systems
  • Experience providing outpatient services to adult and geriatric populations
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Ability to perform Modified Barium Swallow Studies
  • Experience with adult outpatient care, augmentative and alternative communication, dysphagia, dysarthria, degenerative diseases, traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accident, voice, fluency, oral motor treatment, and functional maintenance programs
• Additional Information:
  • First-time travelers are accepted.
  • Candidates in a Clinical Fellowship Year are not accepted.
  • The assignment includes patient evaluation, reassessment, plan-of-care development, discharge planning, compensatory strategies, communication interventions, patient and family education, and in-service training.
  • Experience with assessment, non-evaluative screening tools, modified barium swallow studies, speech-language pathology evaluation coding, Medicare services, and documentation is relevant to the role.
  • Approved time-off requests and specific scheduling requests must be submitted upfront.
  • The clinician may be expected to work three of five designated holidays during the assignment.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits